Roorkee Municipal Corporation | |
|---|---|
| Type | |
| Type | of the Roorkee |
| Leadership | |
Gaurav Goel, IND | |
Vijay Nath Shukla | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 40 |
 | |
Political groups | |
| Elections | |
| first-past-the-post | |
Last election | 22 November 2019 |
| Meeting place | |
| Nagar Nigam Bhavan, Roorkee | |
| Website | |
| Nagar Nigam Roorkee | |
The Roorkee Municipal Corporation is the civic body that governs the city of Roorkee in Uttarakhand, India. [1]
This corporation consists of 40 wards and is headed by a mayor who presides over a deputy mayor and 39 other corporators representing the wards. The mayor is elected directly through a first-past-the-post voting system and the deputy mayor is elected by the corporators from among their numbers.
| S. No. | Name | Term | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yashpal Rana | 3 May 2013 | 3 May 2018 | 5 years, 0 days | Independent | |
| Administrator | 3 May 2018 | 2 December 2019 | 1 year, 212 days | Government of Uttarakhand | ||
| 2 | Gaurav Goel | 3 December 2019 | Incumbent | 3 years, 153 days | Independent | |
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